STATISTICS have shown that 3.2 million people have registered to vote since the December election was called.

And although the deadline has now passed, Farnham’s University of the Creative Arts (UCA) ensured all students had the chance to register by holding a registration drive.

Organised by Jack Jewers, owner of Generation Revolution Media and UCA’s student union, the four day event hoped to “inform and encourage students to register to vote”.

On the reception to the event, Jack said: “I have been stunned at how enthusiastic students have been.

“Anybody who is expecting them to be apathetic or apolitical or to not care about voting needs to get out and talk to some students. They have bitten our hands off.”

He found that over the four days, more than 150 students had registered, describing it as a “wonderful surprise” that so many people had signed up.

Chief executive of UCA’s student union, Andy Squire, also found that the election is “more about their future than any other election in recent history”, adding: “ I think that is what’s turning so many students on to it – they see what is going on and they think ‘actually this is affecting me more than what it has previously.’”

Student volunteer Anton Arenko, who has assisted in helping to register students, said voting was a “civic right and duty” for young people, commenting: “I remember my primary school teacher once said: ‘older people will determine your future if you let them’.

“It is their future at the end of the day, and if they want to sell it to another generation, then that is their prerogative.”